In stunning contradistinction to today's grifting, huckster, in it for the money mountebanks, we have HRH Henrietta Maria. Of course the Puritans hated her catholicism and, I'd argue, everything she stood for, not least the divine right of kings and Christendom itself.
You'll note her pearls. These enraged Protestant sensibility, and she fled the Sceptered Isle when the war went wrong to carry on the fight to the enemy using her not inconsiderable fortune. Do you think her Puritan/Protestant fanatics = today's Leftists? I'd argue yes. You may not, your call.
Regardless, we know the result. The regicides were exhumed and dumped in the Thames, fittingly, while Charles II reigned in a kind of late renaissance degenerate glory. Maria, you'll be glad to know, lived in Somerset House on the Strand during that time but later returned to France.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, all hail exuberant cavalry General, was her nephew. I count her a hero, you may not, no "rule."
Semper Eadem
LSP
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Charles I died for being Catholic, so that makes him one of the multitude of Christian Martyrs.
Henrietta supported Catholic causes so that makes her a hero.
Nobody, not even Charles II, won the English Civil War and the followup Restoration.
By the by, in reference to said ECW and the Big R, the BBC produced two excellent mini-series dealing with the ECW and the Big R. "By the Sword Divided" and "By the Sword United." Excellent costuming, the history is excellent, the settings are excellent, the acting is... of course, excellent. One of those things that proved the Beeb could do excellence.
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